Everyone has a fighting chance
The first big alpha patch for Legion dropped last night, and I was too busy sleeping to get a look at all the changes coming to classes in World of Warcraft. However, with the help of our friends at WoWHead, we’ve got some thoughts on the most major changes coming to the Hunter. For starters, the Survival spec will forego ranged attacks for a melee spec with a Polearm as their artifact weapon. Let’s dive in and take a look at the changes, shall we?
Blizzard has announced the sale of another battle pet for charity in World of Warcraft. Named Brightpaw, the pet sells for $10 and 100% of profits will be donated to the Make-a-Wish Foundation.
An alpha tester for World of Warcraft: Legion has posted several cool screenshots to show off the promised increase in the draw distance that players will experience with the expansion’s launch. Screens include locations in the live game and in Legion. The difference is stunning. See for yourself in our example, then head to Kastel197’s original Reddit post and Imgur page to see the rest.
You are not prepared for my first impressions of the Demon Hunter! A new World of Warcraft expansion is like our Olympics, or the World Cup. Every few years it swings around and becomes all consuming, until we forget about it a few months after the fact. Some of us, at least.
World of Warcraft players will be interested to hear that Gnome Hunters are indeed going to be a reality when Legion launches. These tiny adventurers will start their epic journey with their first pet, a Giant Mechanical Rabbit. Goblins and Gnomes will have the special ability to tame mechanized creatures with other races participating via a tool created through Engineering.
With the commencement of the limited "limited alpha" that includes VIPs, streaming notables, members of the games press, and some rank-and-file players, the information about the World of Warcraft: Legion expansion has flooded out the gate. Blizzard places no limits on its alpha players and, in fact, encourages them to stream game play, write about it, post impressions and screenshots and much more.
The Blizzard corporate web site has been updated with three key positions on the World of Warcraft team: Art Director, Assistant Art Director and Lead Producer. Currently, Chris Robinson is the Art Director and John Lagrave is currently listed as the Lead Producer for WoW. Whether these two are moving internally to other Blizzard projects will remain to be seen.
Several World of Warcraft community members, including a few of the admins at WoWhead, are reporting that their invites to the Legion beta have arrived.
Just in time for today’s eleventh anniversary, World of Warcraft players can now legitimately spam trade chat with the arrival of a new limited-use toy that transforms any weapon into (an inflatable) THUNDERFURY, BLESSED BLADE OF THE WINDSEEKER!
Just in time for today’s eleventh anniversary, World of Warcraft players can now legitimately spam trade chat with the arrival of a new limited-use toy that transforms any weapon into (an inflatable) THUNDERFURY, BLESSED BLADE OF THE WINDSEEKER!